Really... We have problems and challenges like any other country. We have an industrial and mining base which is first world and issues of third world.
Oil is the sole backbone of Azerbaijan. I am pointing out the political scorpion and his family which are soffocating your country. His family are having a foot and mouth in every enterprise.. you call that an economy. If you have such a great GDP why are teachers in Azerbaijan paid around 120$/month... vs 7mil$/month for the cosmetics of Aliey's wife. Man, leaches. The morons have homes all over the french riviera and yet have you walked in Baku outskirts and seen the poverty? Man, you really dont live an ordinary live do you.
Corruption is everywhere right from the airport to regular govt office - like cockroaches your govt has sucked every penny out of its population and terrorised them into silence. Truth is always hard but wake up and see reality on the ground.
I'll repeat myself again , check what Azerbaijan was like before 2005 and then come back
we had a poverty rate of 50+% and unemployment rate at the same level , your comments just prove how ignorant you are.
Our GDP certainly isn't great , very low in fact but just to prove a point it is higher than the country you come from, saying population gets nothing and everything goes to the pockets of politicians is just another one of your ignorant statements.
Yes , I have been outside of Baku and guess what? everyone does fine
Please go check Quba, Ganja , Sumgayit (which is getting 2 industrial parks , each providing up to 10 thousand jobs but of course you will come back and tell me population gets nothing and everything goes to corrupt pockets.), Mingachevir and etc.
It is also worth to mention Azerbaijan has pretty big reserves for its size, amounting to more than 70% of GDP.
PS. I would prefer to live in quite cities such as Qabala , Baku is getting too loud.
then you can check ASAN which drastically reduced the level of corruption in the country, infact in few years ASAN will completely eliminate contact with people and everything will be computerized.
Azerbaijan is developing at a fast rate , its incredible how we went from one of the poorest countries in the world to the strongest economy in the region , now freely investing in other countries such as Georgia , Turkey , Greece and etc.
Anyway , keep up your ignorant posts and stupidity.
you can check how awful Azerbaijan is doing in this thread.
Economic Development in Azerbaijan